OOP: - Harry using the dais arch to communicate in 6 or 7

[karenkyla3]

No: HPFGUIDX 62134

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Regina" <rdgriggs at m...> wrote:
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> Maybe its my own personal grief that is keeping me from believing 
> that Harry and Sirius are never to communicate again, but I think 
JKR 
> has left two big possibilities for Harry to keep in touch with 
Sirius 
> in times of peril in 6 and 7.

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> 2 - the archway at the dais that Sirius was "pulled into?". The way 
> JKR described this room at the MoM was "dimly lit and rectangular, 
> and the center of it was sunken, forming a great stone pit some 
> twenty feet below them. ... what seemed to be stone benches running 
> all around the room and descending in steep steps like an 
> amphitheater ... a raised stone dais in the center of the lowered 
> floor, and upon this dais stood a stone archway that looked so 
> ancient, cracked, and crumbling that Harry was amazed the thing was 
> still standing."  
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> I got the impression it was an ancient place of gathering - perhaps 
> sacrifice when Harry heared the voices coming from behind the 
veil.  
> Then when the Order arrived to help DA, I thought this place could 
> have been an ancient dueling (somewhat "gladiatorish" :) place. 
When 
> Bellatrix and Sirius were dueling I was reading so fast that when 
it 
> became obvious that Sirius was gone I went back and reread - 
(theres 
> the denial coming out again).  Sirius was hit by Bellatrix's curse 
> square in the chest - "his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank 
> backward through the ragged veil hanging from the arch." (p. 806)
> Lestrange obviously knew what Sirius disappearing behind the veil 
> meant because she let out a "triumphant scream".  (p. 806)  
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> To get to the point - Harry heard voices when he found the archway -
 
> maybe he will be able to communicate with Sirius at this place at a 
> future time.  It's significance will have to come out because JKR 
put 
> a lot of description of its appearance and entitled a 
chapter "Beyond 
> the Veil".  It has to be important later on.
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> Anyways - happy rereading
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> Mournfully,
> Epona


Me now:

My impression of the arch was a little different.  They were in the 
Department of Mysteries which appeared to contain those things that 
even the magicians do not understand.  The Brain, Prophesies, and of 
course, the afterlife.  I took the reason that Sirius disappeared 
into the arch was not going into the arch which destroyed him but 
that it was because he was destroyed that he disappeared into the 
arch.  That the arch is the gateway to the afterlife.  I will have to 
reread it though.  By the time I got to that part, I was reading so 
quickly I may have misunderstood.  

Stac